Comments on: hoard.it : bootstrapping the NAW

By: A possible next step for hoard.it? « electronic museum

A possible next step for hoard.it? « electronic museum — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:48:06 +0000

[...] 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment I first wrote about hoard.it, the bootstrapped “API spider” that Dan Zambonini and I built, back in [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:22:29 +0000

@mikelowndes – you only invited me to one of the workshops (the last one, I think), so no (still bitter that I got crapped on by a man-size seagull that day…)

By: mikelowndes

mikelowndes — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:03:46 +0000

Are you sure SWTT had nothing to do with the genesis of this, Mike? No mention of it… ;^)

By: Frankie Roberto’s weblog » Blog Archive » Making sense of cross-museum collections websites

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:18:23 +0000

[...] my Freedom of Information (FOI) requests project and Mike and Dan’s screenscraping project, ‘hoard.it’. I also talked about the Object Wiki project I’ve been leading on at work, which is kind of a [...]

By: Frankie Roberto’s weblog » Blog Archive » ‘Mashing up’ at the UK Museums on the Web Conference 2008

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:10:42 +0000

[...] The day was run by Mike Ellis, who this year decided to provide some more collections data to play with by working with Dan Zambonini to screen-scrape the data (outlined in his blog post, Bootstrapping the Naw). [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:39:02 +0000

Andy, cheers, and apologies for delay ok’ing your comment. I was on holiday

By: Andy Walpole

Andy Walpole — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:28:18 +0000

It’s nice to see some ambitious ideas coming from humanities…

I tried Dapper last year and found it quite limiting in its functions…

I’ve bookmarked the mashedmuseum to keep an eye on the project.

Best of luck and keep up the good work!

By: David Huynh

David Huynh — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:04:46 +0000

Hi Mike,

There’s a link to a conference paper on Sifter, but admittedly the automatic scraping isn’t good enough for general use. So Sifter remains only a research prototype. I’m more of an HCI guy than a machine learning guy, so I focused more on the interactions in Sifter than the actual screen scraping

Regarding Timequilt, I did that at Microsoft Research and they have the code … It’s from 2004, so a bit old. You might want to look at PicLens (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579) or something newer.

Cheers,

David

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:51:08 +0000

Hey David, cheers for those links. Sifter is pretty impressive – it’d be very interesting to find out more about how it does the analysis of the page content. I’m guessing that I can have a delve around http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Sifter and find out more..

I’m familiar with Exhibit and Potluck, partly because I went to a semantic web workshop run by Eric Miller and Brian Sletten a couple of months ago and they demo’d a few bits from Simile. Immensely cool.

I also got carried away looking at Timequilt http://www.vimeo.com/808290 – would love to have a crack at pointing this at our museum data set…any chance..?

Cheers

Mike

By: David Huynh

David Huynh — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:23:11 +0000

Regarding screen scraping, you might find this work “Sifter” interesting:
http://www.vimeo.com/808235
Regarding data integration, see “Potluck”:
http://www.vimeo.com/808214
which has been blogged about by Jon Udell:
http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/12/06/simile-semantic-web-mashups-for-the-rest-of-us/
And regarding creating mashups, see “Exhibit”:
http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/
Some of these projects dated back quite a few years.